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JTPA placed over 300 students
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Posted on Jun 21 1999
Over 300 students in the CNMI will start working today and earn $3.50 per hour in the summer job program put up the Job Training Partnership Act in cooperation with both government and private employers.
JTPA Executive Director Felix Nogis on Friday held an orientation program with the young “interns” and their employers at the multi-purpose in Susupe.
A total of 299 students on Saipan will have job this summer. This is a larger group compared to the past years when the Public School System was still observing the multi-track system.
From this group, 120 will be working with private firms and the rest will seek summer pay from government agencies.
But it is the private sector that extends real on the job training to students.
According to Nogis, senior high school students were given priority to work with the private sector because of the effective training they will receive and for their possible placement after the summer program.
“The private sector has been effective in providing training to our students,” he said.
He was also quick to emphasize with the employers that students come to work without experience and will need supervision. Based on past experience, his office received complaints over the conduct of these interns. Like one company incurred huge long distance bill because an intern was burning the international line.
Nogis told employers that JTPA will not pay for such bills and interns should be supervised at all time.
Likewise, JTPA did not submit students to interview appointments with either sector because most of them will not be admitted, he said.
This year, however, the Northern Marianas College has come in to help with the interns about work ethics and other related job related preparations. Such sessions will start today, he said.
Interns will submit to drug-test if the companies they are assigned to will require this process. The JTPA will pay for the test and students with positive results will automatically be terminated from the summer job program, Nogis told the audience.
